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title: The nobleman felt that he must taste of these apples or die; but the… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The nobleman felt that he must taste of these apples or die; but the wakeful huntsman rushed up and cut down the apple-tree, whereupon apples and apple-tree turned to ashes. Who acts: nobleman, wakeful huntsman. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1, wi
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 29

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The nobleman felt that he must taste of these apples or die; but the wakeful huntsman rushed up and cut down the apple-tree, whereupon apples and apple-tree turned to ashes.

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**Who acts:** nobleman, wakeful huntsman · **What happens:** feel, taste, die, rush up, cut down, turn · **To what, where:** apple tree, apples, ashes

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobleman, wakeful huntsman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29672:4:29
# text = The nobleman felt that he must taste of these apples or die; but the wakeful huntsman rushed up and cut down the apple-tree, whereupon apples and apple-tree turned to ashes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wakeful	wakeful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	conj	_	_
29	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
34	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the nobleman |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **taste** | must | nobleman |  |  |  |  | of this apples | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **die** | infinitive | nobleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **rush up** | participle | the wakeful huntsman |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cut down** | participle | the wakeful huntsman *not said here* | the apple tree |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product |
| 6 | **turn** | participle |  | apples and apple tree *not said here* |  | ashes |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ash=Trajectory |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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